The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves....because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.